Dataset Ontario Trauma Registry (OTR)

Name:

Ontario Trauma Registry (OTR)

Data Provider (source):

Canadian Institute for Health Information

Description:

The Ontario Trauma Registry (OTR) identifies, describes and quantifies trauma injuries in Ontario. Financed by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the OTR comprises three data sets: the Minimum Data Set (MDS), the Comprehensive Data Set (CDS) and the Death Data Set (DDS).

The OTR is composed of three distinct data sets:

MDS data comes from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD).

CDS data comes from 11 lead trauma facilities in Ontario.

DDS data comes from the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario.

Purpose:

to deliver comparable and actionable information to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across the continuum of care

Type of Data (select all that apply):

Health Care and Health Services

Data Collection Method (select all that apply):

Individual Level Data

Scope:

Province of Ontario

Identifiers used for linkage:

Personal Health Number, Date of birth

Access requiredments and conditions for Researchers and Projects:

Data Access Conditions:

In addition to the CIHI data access condition below, requests for Quebec data are subject to review and authorization from the Quebec Privacy Commission (Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec) and the Québec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS).

CIHI discloses health information and analyses on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians in a manner consistent with its mandate and core functions. These disclosures typically fall into one of four categories:

Disclosures to parties with responsibility for the planning and management of the health care system to enable them to fulfill those functions;

Disclosures to parties with a decision-making role regarding health care system policy to facilitate their work;

Disclosures to parties with responsibility for population health research and/or analysis; and

Prior to disclosure, CIHI reviews the requests to ensure that the disclosures are consistent with the above and meet the requirements of applicable legislation.

CIHI data disclosures are made at the highest degree of anonymity possible while still meeting the research and/or analytical purposes. This means that, whenever possible, data are aggregated.

Where aggregate data are not sufficiently detailed for the research and/or analytical purposes, data that have been de-identified using various de-identification processes may be disclosed to the recipient on a case-by-case basis and where the recipient has entered into a data protection agreement or other legally binding instrument with CIHI.

Only those data elements necessary to meet the identified research or analytical purposes may be disclosed.

Requires the recipient to comply with any other provision that CIHI deems necessary to further safeguard the data.

Prior to the disclosure of de-identified data for research purposes, the requester will provide CIHI with evidence of Research Ethics Board approval.

CIHI reserves the right to impose any other requirement(s) as needed on a case-by-case basis in order to maintain the confidentiality of de-identified data.

Prior to disclosure, program areas will evaluate the de-identified data to assess and subsequently minimize privacy risks of re-identification and residual disclosure, and to implement the necessary mitigating measures to manage residual risks.

CIHI will not disclose de-identified data if it is reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances that it could be utilized, either alone or with other information, to identify an individual and that, where it is reasonably foreseeable that it could be used to identify an individual, the information will be treated as personal health information.

For the three component datasets, data is available from the following years:
? Minimum Data Set (MDS): 1994–1995
? Comprehensive Data Set (CDS): 1999–2000
? Death Data Set (DDS): 1986–1987 to 2005–2006

More Information (including references):

The OTR uses the ICD-10-CA/CCI classification system. As of 2004–2005, all records have been reported in ICD-10-CA and CCI; prior to that, ICD-9, CCP and ICD?9?CM were used.